Unnecessary
Redundancy "If you want to prevent identity theft, then
you have to introduce two factor identification, which
negates the benefits of having a chip at all
because third parties would be introduced, making the entire
system less secure than advertised. " Its also no surprise that no one wants this from VeriChip. We are
already uniquely identifiable by a dozen or so different
processes. We have retina scans, fingerprints, DNA and
voice recognition. Then, there are the minor
unique characteristics such as race, hair color, eye color,
height, weight, and shoe size. The only thing an RFID chip
can do is put this into one place, making
it easier than ever to track every single thing you do in life.
[ Ed: biometric ID negates the necessity of
artifical ID ] http://www.just-a-webpage.com/rantings/?p=152

Latest news:

International Information Consortium " There are countless
applications for biometricsin border control, medical
records, computing, and commercial transactionsand many
experts predict it won't be long before such scans are part of
everyday lives.Meantime, the FBI has formed an international
agency with Australia, Britain, and Canada to set up a "Server
in the Sky"a network for sharing
biometric data on criminals and suspected terrorists. The group, called the International Information Consortium,
asserts that a global biometric clearinghouse would help nations
combat terrorism and rapidly identify victims in large-scale
disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/may2009/id20090520_625039.htm

UC Irvine students place
hands in scanner for ID --Hand
geometry system" Campus officials said the "hand
geometry" system has been available for less than two months
and almost 9,000 students have signed up to use it. With it,
people no longer have to worry whether they have carried their ID
or not. Their fingers are their IDs. "The hand scanner does not take fingerprints of
handprints. It records a series of specific measurements and
analyzes more than 31,000 points and 90 measurements on the hand,
including length, width, thickness and surface area and compares
the data with that on file for a member's personal identification
number (PIN). It is also called the "hand geometry"
system"
Right now, only a few special facilities or places have
used the hand geometry system. But possibly people will soon find
they do not have to bring their ID cards with them when they go
to the airport, check in at hotels or draw money from banks.

Biometric ID cards coming for Israel One reason for this reluctance is that biometric
identity cards require establishing a centralized
database with biometric data on every citizen and
legal resident of the country. The Knesset passed it into law a few days before
dissolving for the elections.
The law requires the state to take the fingerprints of both
index fingers from every resident of the country, on top of the
standard facial photograph

Human rights groups fiercely oppose the law.
"It's not for nothing that no Western democracy
has dared to institute such a dangerous database,"
said attorney Avner Pinchuk of the Association for Civil Rights
in Israel, adding that he feared the data would leak
to the Internet.
However, the study found, a few European countries are now
considering biometric IDs.
The European Union has ordered all of its member states to
introduce biometric passports that include fingerprints
and facial features by this May.http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070793.html

EU has largest biometric database
The EU bloc has taken the final step towards having the world's
largest biometric database with 70 million sets of
fingerprints, designed to boost border security by
allowing EU states to share data on short-stay visas and visa
applications from non-EU citizens who
wish to enter the Schengen free-travel zone. On Tuesday (12 June
2007 ), EU interior ministers gave their backing to the so-called
visa information system (VIS),
which stores fingerprints and photos of
people applying or holding a Schengen visa, and accessed by EU
states participating in the Schengen free-travel zone as well as
by the European police office, Europol.http://euobserver.com/9/24261

All Israeli citizens to have biometric ID --minority report
Knesset okays controversial biometrics bill, turns it over to
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee for further legislation.
If passed, will compel citizens to make fingerprints available to
government, or risk jailThe bill's foremost goal it to tackle forgeries: "The
advantage of using biometric features in order to ascertain
someone's identify stems from the fact that biometric information
in constantly 'on' your person, as opposed to other types of
identification measures, which may be subject to alterations and
a limited ability to detect forgeries," said the briefEd: The Verichip will
be IN the person which includes "on" the person . ...and allowing law enforcement agencies access to it would make potential criminals out of
every law-abiding citizen," Attorney Dan
Chai, of the Israeli Bar Association, said in August. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3614965,00.html

Biometric global IDs; Jms. Ziglar ID World Congress
Cross Match Technologies, Inc. announced today that Chief
Executive Officer, James W. Ziglar, will deliver a keynote
address on the Future of Biometrics at the ID WORLD International
Congress 2007 on November 27, 2007 in Milan, Italy. Mr. Ziglar
will participate on a four-person cross-sector panel, entitled
"The Future of Identification: CEO Vision", where he
will share his vision regarding the challenges involved in integrating biometrics into global identity management
and security systems. Cross Match also will be represented on the Electronic
Passport Forum on November 28, 2007 by Dr. Andreas
Wolf, Vice President Border Control Solutions. Dr. Wolf will
discuss how standards lead the way to
global e-passport interoperability."Automatic
identification technology has become pervasive in everyday life
and represents a fundamental building block of every information
and communication system in the public and commercial sectors,
both domestically and internationally"http://www.pr-inside.com/cross-match-ceo-james-w-ziglar-r318203.htm

Fingerprinting the EU ( Ed:
England - US endeavors ) "Britain would be expected to
contribute all the details held by police."The sensitive information it contains
could be shared with third parties, such as US law enforcement
authorities"Eurosceptics criticized them as the
trappings of a super-state, while some of Europes most
ardent supporters complained of a threat to civil
liberties."http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=43539

"Skin Deep" by Linda Sargent
Hand and Iris scans paving the way for the MOBhttp://www.earnedmedia.org/wpp03132.htmhttp://www.christiannewswire.com/news/984122435.html
Biometric ID better than a number -Amal GraafstraEd: Amal thinks this is not a government agenda (
history does not confirm that opinion ) " Personally, I still think this is a moot
point as biometric systems
get better at detecting fakes and eliminating false positives. It
is much easier to identify people based on facial structure,
chemical scent, finger print, iris scans, and eventually
real-time DNA scans than to get them to concent to an implant
proceedure, and it is infinately easier to enroll people in these
types of programs sometimes without their even knowing
it.
People in the UK are tracked all the time using facial
recognition via the huge network of city-wide video cameras,
even though the people being tracked have never surrendered their
picture to the system......"So, the best way for his[ Silverman]
controversial product to get to market in the US is to work with the government to ensure the
government can enforce implantation programs on
non-US citizens who want to enter and work in the US. http://blog.amal.net/?p=27

Biometric ATMs -- enabling a police state -- Kim Nimmo
Panopticon SingularityIn a day not too far off in the future,
fingerprint analysis, iris recognition, voice recognition or
combinations of these technologies will come to the rescue.
DieBold, the friendly voting machine folks, are working on this
for us. Standard Bank in South Africa has fingerprint
verification ATMs manufactured by DieBold in use and the
company is fast at work figuring out what technology works the
best. Once they do, you may see biometric ATMs in your
neighborhoodAccording to Citibank, biometric ATMs
"have been tailored to meet the needs of the under-banked,
lower income segment" and will feature "voice-enabled
navigation facility aimed at illiterate customers," Moneycontrol
reports. "Citibank plans to establish a network of 25 to 35
such ATMs within a year," for now in Mumbai and HyderabadOf course, this gets the "tech-savvy
consumer" prepared for biometric technology everywhere, not
only at the airport but the grocery store and bank. Biometric
will connect to every possible aspect of life that requires a
transaction or security requirement. Its a small step
from a biometric ATM card to a subdermal microchip.

Seems Applied Digital is positioned to cash in on the coming electronic
panopticon,"a police state characterized by omniscient
surveillance and
mechanical law enforcement,[ Ed: automated ]
" as Charlie
Stross characterizes it.
Applied Digital, Citibank, Disney, and other corporate behemoths
may attempt to sell us on biometric convenience and safety, but
the eventual use of these technologies will ultimately fall in
the domain of surveillance and control.
"Surveillance need not even stop at our skin," with the
collection of fingerprints and iris scans, Stross notes, because
"the ability to monitor our speech and track our biological
signs (for example: pulse, pupillary dilation, or possibly
hormone and neurotransmitter levels) may lead to attempts to monitor thoughts as well
as deeds. What starts with attempts to identify paedophile
predators before they strike may end with discrimination against
people believed to be at risk of 'addictive
behaviorhowsoever that might be definedor of
harboring anti-social attitudes," for instance disagreeing
with the government.

"A Panopticon Singularity [ Ed: all pervasive ID
finder ] is the logical outcome if the burgeoning technologies
of the singularity[ Ed: targeting individuals ] are funneled
into automating law enforcement.
Previous police states were limited by manpower, but the
panopticon singularity substitutes technology, and ultimately
replaces human conscience with a brilliant but merciless
prosthesis."
[ Ed: arbitrary; without mercy , or
extenuating circumstances; unreasonable ]
It will not take another forty years to realize the panopticon
singularityit is
right around the corner, beginning with the Real ID Act in 2008, a
biometric scheme approved by our wonderful
"representatives" that will be implemented and
supervised by the Orwellian Ministry of Homeland Security, a
massive federal bureaucratic boondoggle created to protect us
from non-existent "al-Qaeda" terrorists.
It makes perfect sense Real ID was slipped into a $82 billion
military spending bill.

In Philip K. Dicks short story, Minority Report,
set in 2054, as realized by Steven Spielberg in his 2002 film,
everyone is automatically
[ Ed: without knowledge or consent ] eye-scanned and tracked in
public, thus not only allowing the police state to keep tabs on
every individual, but also target them for odious marketing
efforts. It is a prefect marriage of corporations and the state,
both fascist in character, as Mussolini described fascism as
corporatism and vice versa.

the reality of a biometrically scanned and chipped future
is almost too hellish to imagine, far worse than anything
Steven Spielberg could possibly dream uphttp://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28704

Biometric ID for US military Freeland, WA, USA, October 26, 2006 -- The
United States Military Central Command is deploying soldiers to
Iraq with the latest technology in biometric security to secure
their personal and private information. Commanders at CENTCOM are
distributing the BioCert(r) ClipBio(tm) Pro 1GB fingerprint flash
drives to soldiers being deployed to Iraq.US Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines and other
coalition forces are using the ClipBio Pro as shown on
the BioCert(r) ClipBio Pro Website to secure their personal
communications with their families, personal files, create,
store and email documents and to store confidential information
all protected with their fingerprints. The BioCert ClipBio Pro is
designed to secure up to 1Gigabyte of information with a simple
swipe of your finger.

Unlike previous generations, today's soldiers have the ability to
communicate from the field via the Internet with their families
through the use of email, video email and other high tech methods
on a regular basis. In years past, these messages from loved ones
in the battlefield used to take months to get from a combat zone
to the recipient. Now they take nano-seconds.

Todays soldier can carry everything they need to do everything
they would normally do with a PC, all in under 2 ounces - in the
palm of their hand for under a hundred dollars. Members of every
branch of service are carrying their ClipBio Pro with them in the
field." claims James Childers - CEO of Artemis Solutions
Group, makers of the BioCert ClipBio Pro Flash Drives
but also to conduct other personal business such as balancing the checkbook, budgeting, checking
or repairing their credit report, online banking
and all of the other activities that they would perform on their
PC at home.http://press.xtvworld.com/article14975.html

Titaniam Access Control
Titanium's state-of-the-art face recognition
system will be instituted in all access points where every
individual entering the premises will have their facial landscapeverified against the pre-registered database.
To ensure the highest degree of security, the solution will be
used in conjunction with a personal smart card for all
participants. The whole transaction is required to be completed
in less than 3 seconds.
"We view this as a golden opportunity for us, as meetings of
this type are also held in thousands of other cities in China. http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=203600

Biometric markets addressed in the Report
include the following:
Law Enforcement ; Military
State and Municipal Government ; National Government
Financial Services ; Retail
Gaming and Hospitality
Health Care
High-Tech and Telecom
Industrial Manufacturing
Transportation http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/1/emw497216.htm

Gen. Dynamic Vein-scan, ROME
Many governments around the world are using smart cards with
embedded biometrics as IDs for homeland security and other
purposes. In the United States, smart-card computer chips
typically contain fingerprints and facial photographs. Several
countries are testing an array of newer biometrics, including
those based on patterns in irises, retinas, veins in fingers and
palms, hand geometry, 3-D facial images, voice, gait, odor and
ear shapeFingers are first
Of all the biometric technologies used widely today, the most
popular is the fingerprint scan, said Al Vrancart, industry
adviser for Princeton, N.J., trade group International Card
Manufacturers Association.
Fingerprint biometrics are accurate, inexpensive and
adaptable for one-time or multiple usage, he said. http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/21_10/cover-stories/28640-1.html

BioCertŪ product line  the BioCertŪ ClipBio™ Pro
1GB Secure Fingerprint Flash Drive. Secured using AES 128 bit encryption, the secure
partition of the BioCertŪ ClipBio™ Pro 1GB is only
accessible when an authorized user swipes their
fingerprint over the BioPrintŪ Sensor through the
included Odyssey™ softwareOur BioCertŪ ClipBio™ Pro 1GB Flash
Drive is designed to allow only authorized individuals to have
access to your encrypted data stored on the secure partition.
Customers have to authenticate their identity with a
swipe of their fingerprint on the sensor. The
ClipBio Pro is automatically recognized by PCs running the
Windows XP operating system and the secure partition is only
visible once the user is authenticatedThe BioCert ClipBio and the new to be released
iQBioDrive™ thwarts the would-be thieves and secures this
confidential data with biometric security states James
Childers  CEO of Artemis Solutions Group (iQBio, Inc.)
Produced in conjunction with Symwave Corporation of San Diego
California, the BioCert ClipBio Pro is powered by the Symwave
BioPrint SW6888 swipe fingerprint IC.(www.symwave.com)
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VIDEO included :Biometrics ID System Debuts At Orlando
Airport -- "CLEAR"
Those passengers who pay $80 a year to join the traveler
pilot program called "Clear" register by
computer either at home or at the airport and give their
biometric data at an airport kiosk resembling an oversize ATM
machine.
The information is then submitted to the Transportation Security
Administration. If the passengers are approved, they get
a baby blue translucent card that holds a computer chip
containing their fingerprints and iris image for quick identity
verification
Registered Traveler Program http://www.flyclear.comThey also earn the right to go through a separate, quicker
security lane as soon as July, although they still will need to
pass shoeless through an airport metal detector. http://www.local6.com/news/4636023/detail.html

MidEast National ID -- ABIS Identix -- Identix' ABIS(TM) biometric data-mining
platform and search enginesABIS provides a biometric knowledge discovery
platform that enables users to harness the powerful
identification and security tools encompassed in the unique
physical characteristics of each individual that are inherent in
biometrics.facial recognition and
skin biometric technology We are seeing significantly increased
opportunities throughout the world for large-scale biometric
data-mining capabilities," said Identix President & CEO
Dr. Joseph J. Atick. "Countless databases
totaling hundreds of millions of biometric images exist across
the world today. Nations are realizing at the highest levels of
government that the ability to tap into this information can
potentially provide a powerful tool towards heightened national
security, as well as for regulating critical internal programs

Atick continued. "Identix is the only
company to fuse face and skin biometrics into a single powerful
offeringIdentix' internal tests utilizing
FaceIt G6 have demonstrated that for most data image
populations - including the databases utilized in the latest
US government Facial Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT 2002) -
the typical Correct Match Rate (CMR) increases substantially. http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050103/35157_1.html

It's those databases !
The purpose of the conference is to harmonize human and
facility resources between clients and supplier (I.D.ology Labs
and/or Globe Staff Consulting). ....
However, when those same citizens are polled on the question of
how their personal information will be managed in a largenational database they quickly become negative
sighting the real potential for abuse as they
also believe that a National ID card will very rapidly become a
National Medical card, credit card, Driver's license, and
Passport etc. This mixing of database history in a
large national database that can be accessed by all service
contributors has resulted in wide spread disapproval of the
concept.

They
store your mathematical fingerprint on your ID cardWhat makes the proposed biometric technology that
Sure Trace has targeted for acquisition
so attractive is that it does not require a back-end database to
store fingerprint images, as images are stored in an alphanumeric
encryption code on a tiny computer chip on the card itself. This
not only eliminates concerns expressed by the public with respect
to privacy but also significantly reduces the cost of the overall
system, as a large national database is not required. All that is
required is the cardholder and simple and inexpensive power
source much like commonly used magnetic card readers found in
many retail operations globally. Existing readers can
be easily and cheaply retrofitted to accommodate the new
technology

We see large-scale demand on a global
basis and that this demand will continue to grow rapidly."
http://denver.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=6097&type_news=latestEd.
note: Maybe it doesn't need a back-end database for strictly ID
checking, however when verichip is added to the mix ( required on
the right hand or forehead) , all databases become available.Since
two formats will be required for authentication , verification
and validation, then VeriChip will be there to open Pandora's
Box.

Biometric ID cards tested around the country
Government -worker ID cardA biometric identification card being tested at
34 of the nation's ports of entry may become the
government-worker identification card of the future.Transportation Worker Identification
CredentialTSA officials say they hope TWIC will reduce the
need for multiple cards being used by truckers and other workers
in charge of transporting material.

Here's how TWIC works: Workers enroll in an
account with either their employer or the locations they will
access. During the enrollment process, applicants need to show
valid forms of identification such as a driver's license or
passport. Their names are crosschecked with various terrorist
databases, most notably TSA's "no fly list" (search). Workers cleared for enrollment have
their fingerprints and photograph taken, then their credential is
issued. The card is swiped through a reader at the given
facility, and if the credential is approved, the worker can gain
access.http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,141059,00.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35071-2004Dec29.html

National Biometric Security Project ( Michael Yura ) D.C and W.
Virginia --NBSPAnother tester in the United States, the National
Biometrics Security Project (NBSP), was formed shortly after the
Sept. 11 attacks. The private, nonprofit organization is a
collaboration between academia, industry, and government for
biometrics testing, says Dr. Michael T. Yura,
senior vice president for the groups West Virginia
operation. Yura compares NBSP to Underwriters Laboratories, the
U.S.-based not-for-profit product safety testing organization
that bestows the UL seal of approval on many products. "We
make sure that the vendors systems do what they say they
do," Yura says.

NBSP was incorporated in January 2002 and has offices in Washington,
D.C., and in West Virginia, where the state
university is an academic partner.
The group is funded partly by government agencies, but also
accepts contract work, Yura says.The goal is to ensure that new biometrics programs are
accepted by citizenshttp://www.cardtechnology.com/cgi-bin/readstory.pl?story=20030801CTMI126.xml

Biometric Lockers Fingerprint biometric systems generally
work by reducing the image of a print to a template, a
mathematic algorithm that gets stored in a database
and can be checked when the person returns for later scans.
In applications like the biometric lockers, the print itself is
not stored or sent to authorities.
However, prints are being run through terrorist watch lists in the
biggest deployment of biometrics yet  the federal
government's new system for tracking foreign travelers.Other pay-by-fingerprint systems,
including one tested several years ago at a McDonald's in Fresno,
Calif., haven't met with much enthusiasm.
But that could change now that credit
card fraud and identity theft have emerged as bigger problems,
said Dean Douglas, a services vice president at IBM Corp., which
is handling the back-end technology for Piggly Wiggly's
finger-scanning system.
"Within the next five to 10 years," Douglas predicted,
"we're going to see biometrics play an
increasingly large part of consumer transactions."[ meaning the
666 Mark of the Beast for all financial transactions] http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20040811-0735-biometricsemerging.html

Paying with Thumbprint -- .."BioPay"Customers at Fox Mill Pets can pay for the doggy in the
window by placing a thumb on a fingerprint scanner at the
register.The scanner is connected to a computer, which analyzes the
print. Because thumbprints are unique, the computer can match
the print to a customer and deduct the price of the puppy from
that customer's checking account.
Trials, such as Fox Mill Pets' partnership with biometrics firm
BioPay, may prove otherwise. Eleven Food 4 Less
stores in the Midwest and three Kroger grocery stores
in Texas are trying fingerprint scanners, as are other shops.

Fingerprint access ISL Biometrics has installed fingerprint-recognition
technology at over 60 British hospitals, McDermott said.
Some 11,000 National Health Service employees must press
their finger to a tiny finger pad on a computer before gaining
access to patient information or physical access to the
prescription drugs ward, he added.
McDermott said privately held company ISL Biometrics has begun
working with large banks and retailers interested in an extra
layer of security for the growing number of transactions that
take place on the Internet and other data networks. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20031015/tc_nm/tech_biometrics_dc

Veriprint 2100 Biometric IDAt Comdex/Spring, Southern California-based Biometric Identification
introduced Veriprint 2100, a self-contained fingerprint and
verification device. Rather than using the conventional method of
scanning "points" on the finger print image, Veriprint
2100 uses a patented ridge recognition algorithm to verify the
accuracy of a print image. The unit, which can allow employee
access or track employee attendance, includes a fully
programmable processor, a 32-character display, and a 12-digit
keypad.

The company also showcased itsembedded
biometric system to OEMs. Its silicon-based MV1100
technology will be available to companies hoping to control
access and to increase security. Whether you're securing access
to your credit card, computer, cellular phone or your automobile,
this technology will ultimately give consumers added security and
freedom.http://www.techtv.com/freshgear/pipeline/story/0,23008,2247805,00.html